Chapter Summaries

Xia Beiluo explained to Igor why she rejected gambling and planned to use music to unite people, then continued her pilgrimage to Garilinov Stone Valley. Her journey ended in a confrontation with Spectre Church hunter Farman Lupin, who pronounced judgment on her.

• Caramel Snail learned that Xia Beiluo had announced a pilgrimage to Garilinov Stone Valley, and Li Aoz led him away before they could listen to her song.
• Igor urged Xia Beiluo to use the Soul Casino to earn money, but she refused and explained that she wanted to defend the church while reforming it through music rather than war.
• Xia Beiluo described her plan to perform at Garilinov Stone Valley so her music could reach the whole world, and she continued toward the holy land on her bicycle.
• Farman Lupin identified Xia Beiluo as a heretic, summoned Wandering Souls into a scythe, and pronounced judgment on her by his lord's command.

Li Aoz and Caramel Snail reached Garilinov Stone Valley and discovered that the original Xia Beiluo had died decades earlier, while her followers kept her identity and music alive. Li Aoz revealed that Violet Star had been irreversibly parasitized and ordered X Fleet to begin orbital bombardment as Caramel Snail tried to stop him.

• Li Aoz explained to Caramel Snail how the Paths differed and how Xia Beiluo had used music to try to reconcile the Church and the rebels.
• Li Aoz and Caramel Snail found a seventh-generation Xia Beiluo at Garilinov Stone Valley, where she revealed that the original Xia Beiluo had been murdered fifty years earlier.
• Caramel Snail accused Li Aoz of knowing the truth all along, and Li Aoz confirmed that he had concealed it as part of their mission to find the Soul Casino.
• Li Aoz revealed that Violet Star had been parasitized by a Rock and Roll meme and said he had sent the planet's gathered coordinates to X Fleet.
• As warships took aim at Violet Star, Li Aoz ordered Tactic Two, orbital bombardment, and blazing attacks fell on the planet's population centers.

The players invaded Violet Star, crushing its defenders even as the Bizarre Church and rock bands united to resist. After Xia Beiluo died, Caramel Snail confronted Li Aoz and learned that Li Aoz had deceived him and pursued the invasion and war against Society for his own ambitions.

• The Descenders devastated Violet Star, and the Bizarre Church reconciled with the rock bands to fight the invaders together.
• Violet Star's shamans, spirits, and rock musicians resisted the players, but the invaders killed the defenders and celebrated their mission rewards.
• Li Aoz approached the dead Xia Beiluo and reached for her guitar, Soul Casino, but Caramel Snail stopped him at blade-point.
• Caramel Snail accused Li Aoz of hiding the invasion plan and manipulating him, while Li Aoz admitted he had used their journey to prepare the bombardment.
• Li Aoz revealed that he had saved Azure Planet and pursued control of White Candle Star for personal gain, and that he fought Society to earn a path to a Narrative-level Civilization.
• As aircraft passed overhead in the rain, Caramel Snail struggled to process Li Aoz's confession.

Caramel Snail turned against Li Aoz after concluding the Star Abyss invaders had destroyed Violet Star’s future, while Lioz took control of Li Aoz’s body and confronted Jio Zeiou. Lioz revealed overwhelming power by using Sequence Two—Nothingness, erasing half of Violet Star.

• Caramel Snail accused Li Aoz of destroying the lives and future of Violet Star’s people and left the party as his corruption rose.
• Caramel Snail rejected Li Aoz’s authority, tore off his military tag, and abandoned the Recognition Filter and Lai Anding Medical Protocol.
• Lioz took control of Li Aoz’s body and identified Jio Zeiou as contaminated, while Jio Zeiou warned that society’s control over him would soon destroy them both.
• Lioz began fighting Jio Zeiou and unleashed Sequence Two—Nothingness, expelling particles and erasing Violet Star’s northern hemisphere.

Lioz annihilated Jio Zeiou, and the fleet declared Violet Star liberated after its civilization was devastated. Caramel Snail resolved to grow stronger and dive into the Star Abyss, while Li Aoz encountered Lioz in a strange realm and learned his identity.

• Lioz used Sequence Three · Paradox to freeze spacetime and destroy Jio Zeiou with an orange particle storm.
• Darian learned that Violet Star's settlements had been wiped out and announced its conquest to the fleet, whose members celebrated.
• Caramel Snail questioned the destruction of Violet Star, resolved to stop treating its natives as data, and decided to dive into the Star Abyss to become stronger than Li Aoz.
• Li Aoz found himself in a dark realm and approached a towering figure that identified itself as Lioz, the proxy of Morphedria Main God and master of the Pantheon.

Li Aoz learned that he and Lioz were two divided aspects of the same God of Reality, and that they could merge only after he grew powerful enough. Lioz also revealed that the Hidden Society came from Earth, leaving Li Aoz with a new clue about Gaia’s origins.

• Lioz explained that Li Aoz was not his reincarnation but the human aspect of their divided identity, and that merging would require ascension to godhood and ultimately Omega-rank to inherit his full authority.
• Lioz revealed that he possessed the Paradox, Void, and Chaos Aoneng sequences, and said the Truth Drug had improved Li Aoz’s combat skills while slowing their fusion.
• Li Aoz asked about Caramel Snail, and Lioz identified him as Jio Zeiou, a former subordinate of the Destruction-type Main God who had been eliminated by Leviathan Dahl and recycled into a Descender.
• Lioz said Gaia had spared him from death and exiled him to Star Abyss, allowing him to retain his memories and consciousness.
• Lioz revealed that the Hidden Society’s predecessor came from another universe, and that its members came from Earth.

Li Aoz learned about Gaia’s Earth origins and the rivalries among her three Chairmen, then discovered that the Doomsayer Lei Wenyuan was also the Red King, Star Abyss Main God and controller of Narrative 11. Lioz urged him to seek Red King’s alliance despite the risk of betrayal and death.

• Lioz explained that Earth-descended civilizations were highly warlike and described Gaia’s three Chairmen: Emperor Anpolo, Doomsayer Lei Wenyuan, and Scholar Lyle Swindler.
• Lioz identified Emperor Anpolo as their enemy, warned Li Aoz not to trust Lyle, and recommended trying to win over Lei Wenyuan.
• Li Aoz learned that Lei Wenyuan used the name Red King and connected him to the Star Abyss Main God and the controller of Narrative 11.
• Li Aoz concluded that Red King had usurped the Plunder Class divine throne and that the Hidden Society had infiltrated the Star Abyss.
• Lioz urged Li Aoz to contact Red King and propose an alliance, while Li Aoz protested that Red King could betray or kill them.
• Lioz argued that the alliance was their most efficient option and said death might only mean being reclaimed by the Star Abyss or reborn from chaos.

Li Aoz rejected Lioz’s plan to sacrifice himself and, after sealing Lioz’s influence, mapped the conflict between Star Abyss and the invading societies. He resolved to unite Star Abyss civilizations against the Hidden Society and ended by examining the Social Institution he had seized.

• Li Aoz argued with Lioz about risking his life, and Lioz urged him to strengthen his soul before their conversation ended.
• Li Aoz awoke in his office, took an imitation Truth Drug to suppress Lioz’s influence, and considered the power of Lioz’s three Aoneng and Gaia’s strength.
• Li Aoz divided the major forces into the Star Abyss Faction and the Society Faction, identifying the societies as enemies invading Star Abyss.
• Li Aoz decided to unite smaller and medium-sized civilizations and Narrative-level Civilizations against the Hidden Society before confronting Red King.
• Li Aoz reviewed what he had learned, dismissed his concerns about Caramel Snail for now, and took out the seized Social Institution, Soul Casino.

Li Aoz examined Soul Casino, a guitar-like Social Institution that could manipulate fortune at the cost of soul and social corruption. By using Soul Crystals to reset his fortune, he obtained an elevenfold fortune multiplier lasting ten years.

• Li Aoz reviewed Soul Casino’s abilities, including its fortune resets and the risk of being dragged into the Nether Abyss after exhausting all Soul Weights.
• Li Aoz transformed Soul Casino into a silver tower and used a Soul Crystal to reset his fortune, getting a multiplier of 1.
• Li Aoz used two more Soul Crystals and raised his fortune multiplier first to 2, then to 6.
• Li Aoz performed a ritual and used his final Soul Crystal, obtaining an elevenfold fortune multiplier for ten years.
• Li Aoz restored Soul Casino to guitar form and saw the new Prosperous Fortune status on his panel.

Li Aoz reviewed the rise of the Bloodfiend Style and the enormous number of Overlord Class members, realizing how Azure Planet could gain power through the Echoer Path. He planned to visit the Hunter's Gathering to seek information about Qualia-Direction and saw a chance to profit by selling goods to veteran hunters.

• Li Aoz saw that Bloodfiend Style Mutants had become vital on Sky Ring's battlefields, where their durability and damage made them popular among players.
• Li Aoz counted 1.712 million Gamma-rank Mutant players and more than two million Gamma-rank Overlord Class members, strengthening his belief that the Entropy Lord's awakening was near.
• Li Aoz calculated that guiding more people onto the Echoer Path could grant him vast attribute bonuses and concluded that Azure Planet and White Candle Star should unite as one civilization.
• Li Aoz examined invitations to the Hunter's Gathering and Teleki Exhibition Hall, then chose the gathering to seek information about Qualia-Direction.
• Li Aoz opened his shop and prepared to sell his abundant stock to the veteran hunters for a profit.

Li Aoz approved a foreign investor’s plan to build a magic-materials plant and learned that his probes had found a gold-rich planet. He acquired a rare Overlord Class meteorite that could grant Frost Release and generate gene fragments, then received 136 million Ammonium Gold in earnings from Olavier’s contest broadcast rights.

• A subordinate told Li Aoz that merchant Kuer Si Lubang wanted to establish a magic material processing plant, and Li Aoz approved the request.
• X Fleet reported finding a planet with an estimated 4.2 million tons of mineable gold and other valuable minerals.
• Player Yu Tianxiao traded Li Aoz a Strange Meteorite, which Li Aoz identified as Flawless Solid Ice, a mutation inducer restricted to Overlord Class holders.
• Li Aoz put Flawless Solid Ice close to his body to gain its potential mutation and gene-fragment benefits.
• Olavier told Li Aoz that the Heroes Empire had bought the broadcast rights to the Real Person Killing Contest and transferred 136 million Ammonium Gold to him.

Li Aoz learned from Olavier that two Deep Abyss Squads had vanished in a Level 5 Silent Uncontact, likely due to targeted killings by insiders in the Lower Star Abyss. Since his own descent was imminent, Li Aoz decided he might go down alone and asked Olavier for information on Qualia-Direction.

• Li Aoz thanked Olavier for helping the Valenkov People escape the economic crisis, and Olavier warned him to be cautious as a young Zeta-rank talent.
• Olavier explained how descenders relied on Narrative-level Civilizations and their Deep Abyss Squads to travel safely into and out of the Star Abyss.
• Olavier revealed that Deep Abyss Squads from the Temple of Annihilation and the United Company had failed to return, and Li Aoz identified the case as Level 5 Silent Uncontact.
• Li Aoz concluded that the squads had likely been targeted by an insider and heard Olavier warn him against descending or approaching Narrative-level Civilizations.
• Li Aoz said he might descend alone and asked Olavier for information on Qualia-Direction so he could pursue weak-force Aoneng and become a Moonstring Bishop.

Li Aoz connected the Deep Abyss Squad attack to a future tragedy and planned to investigate Society’s possible involvement while building his power. As his fortune surged, Nalia and Verrazzi Company prepared to capture him alive, sending Nefthys Cleopatra to ambush him at White Candle Star.

• Li Aoz recalled how the Deep Abyss Squad’s murder could lead to a child’s enslavement, the destruction of his people, and a catastrophic rise of the evil goddess Lustful Woman, so he resolved to investigate possible ties to Society.
• Li Aoz received news of a Magic Crystal Mine, business opportunities, and a marriage proposal, and his assets rose to 1.45 billion Ammonium Gold.
• Li Aoz reinvested his wealth into industries and military strength instead of letting the money sit idle.
• Nalia and Verrazzi Company prepared to seize Li Aoz at White Candle Star and ordered Nefthys Cleopatra to capture him alive for assimilation into their Grand Narrative.

Nalia and Nefes set their Star Hunt operation in motion to capture Li Aoz during his civilian flight, with Nefes boarding alongside him and the conspirators manipulating his seating. The chapter left Li Aoz unaware of the ambush as Nefes settled two rows behind him.

• Nalia monitored the Star Hunt operation, which used a Zeta-rank Gambler, infiltrators, and a compromised flight crew to trap Li Aoz.
• Nalia considered how capturing Li Aoz could advance her standing with Andrew Verrazzi and give her control of Gabros.
• The conspirators identified Li Aoz at the starport, and Nefes followed him onto the spacecraft while keeping her presence concealed.
• A woman carrying a baby asked Li Aoz to exchange seats, moving him from the window to the middle of the cabin.
• Nefes sat two rows behind Li Aoz and frightened a fellow passenger who tried to talk to her.

Li Aoz encountered a Galaxy Civilization flight attendant who ignored his requests for a blanket and mocked him for speaking the wrong language. He called out her discrimination in fluent Elven to the Steel Elf seated beside him.

• Li Aoz read a travel magazine aboard the Kaitai Interstellar Transport ship on his way to the Hunter's Gathering.
• Li Aoz asked a Galaxy Civilization flight attendant for a blanket, but she ignored him while serving the Steel Elf beside him.
• The attendant claimed she could not understand Li Aoz's language and laughed when he used the Empire's word for carpet.
• Li Aoz realized the attendant was deliberately making things difficult for him and accused her of racial discrimination.
• Li Aoz addressed the Steel Elf in fluent Elven and insulted the attendant and the star transport company.

Li Aoz used his status and charm to turn a flight attendant’s refusal to give him a blanket into a public scandal over discrimination against Tannhauser passengers. After the attendant was punished and the co-pilot apologized, Li Aoz revealed that all he wanted was a blanket for a woman traveling with a child, leaving the co-pilot unsure whether he was a Narrative-level person.

• Li Aoz spoke Elvish with a young Steel Elf and mocked the flight attendant before revealing his Ling Race markings and demanding a blanket.
• Li Aoz rallied the passengers against the flight attendant, and Nefes reported the growing support for him to Nalia, who said Gambler had foreseen it.
• A Tower Clan auntie struck the co-pilot as the passengers condemned the airline, while the flight attendant apologized and Li Aoz demanded that she cut off her hair.
• The flight attendant detached her hair nerve bundles and collapsed, and the co-pilot apologized and offered compensation.
• Li Aoz declined compensation and asked the co-pilot to bring a blanket to a woman with a child in seat C-198, prompting the co-pilot to question whether he was a Narrative-level person.

Li Aoz exposed the co-pilot’s discrimination, then learned a woman had been forced to take the seat beside him as part of an attempt to target him. Nefthys Cleopatra and Nalia began Operation “Star Hunt,” but Li Aoz’s supreme bloodline disrupted Nefthys’s capture attempt and the two began fighting.

• Li Aoz condemned the co-pilot’s racial discrimination, and the co-pilot apologized to him and the passengers.
• Li Aoz gave the woman’s baby his blanket, and she confessed that powerful strangers had forced her to switch seats so they could target him.
• Nalia ordered Operation “Star Hunt” to begin, while the spacecraft sounded alarms after being locked onto by unknown fire-control radar.
• Nefthys Cleopatra tried to imprison Li Aoz, but his Supreme bloodline suppressed her and let him collect genetic information from her.
• Nalia ordered Nefthys to capture Li Aoz; Nefthys attacked, and Li Aoz blocked her punch before striking back.

Li Aoz fought Nefes aboard a civilian flight while Nalia and the Gambler prepared to capture him with help from incoming pirates. With a Dimensional Anchor blocking his space-time abilities, Li Aoz was forced into a dangerous close-quarters battle and remained uncertain why Verrazzi Company wanted him alive.

• Li Aoz and Nefes exchanged blows, but their damage-reduction abilities made it difficult for either to injure the other.
• Nalia ordered Nefes to stall Li Aoz until pirates boarded, while the Gambler read a ritual omen warning of casualties and a need to act quickly.
• Nefes unleashed her Zeta-rank killing aura, injuring or incapacitating passengers, and Li Aoz tried to stop it with Space-time Ripple.
• A Dimensional Anchor blocked Li Aoz's space-time abilities, so he used gravity to protect passengers and fought Nefes with an Echo Blade.
• Nefes shattered Li Aoz's Echo Blade and drove him back, while he limited the fight's damage to the aircraft and tried to understand why Verrazzi Company had targeted him.

Li Aoz fought Nefes aboard the ship while looking for a way out without exposing his identity or endangering the passengers. Their battle left both with little health lost, but Nefes recognized his tricks and continued to resist him.

• Li Aoz weighed the risks of fighting openly and searched for a way outside while trading blows with Nefes.
• Nefes used Tiger Style · Bombardment Stance to attack relentlessly, but Li Aoz's vast health and healing prevention kept their health losses low.
• Li Aoz realized Nefes's side was trying to imprison him again when her kick triggered a Bloodline assessment.
• Li Aoz used Crescent Moon to create afterimages and tried to vanish with Gravity Distortion.
• Nefes unleashed Aura Burst to destroy the afterimages and graze Li Aoz, showing that invisibility no longer fooled her.

Nefes’s attempt to restrain Li Aoz ended with his head apparently severed, forcing her team to rush his body toward resurrection before the ten-hour deadline. Nefes handed him over to a fleet bound for a Fixed Time Domain Planet, while the reception team blamed her for the costly emergency.

• Nalia ordered Nefes to stall Li Aoz until the pirates could board and take control of the hostages.
• Nefes used her Flying Cross Lock to pin Li Aoz while Cosmic Pirates threatened the passengers, but Li Aoz’s head came off and his life signs disappeared.
• Nalia ordered Nefes to freeze Li Aoz’s body and get him to a Zeta-rank priest for resurrection within ten hours.
• Nefes carried Li Aoz’s head and body to an emergency exit, where reserve personnel sealed him in a cryo-chamber.
• Nefes delivered the cryo-chamber to the receiving fleet and ordered the team to take Li Aoz to a Fixed Time Domain Planet immediately.
• The reception team argued with Nefes over the lifespan cost of entering the Fixed Time Domain, then hurried away with the chamber as the deadline approached.